How To Limit WordPress Search Results By Post Type

There are occasions in which you may want to limit WordPress search results to a specific post type rather than just the default. Your theme may have custom post types that you want to be included in the search, or perhaps you only want to search the custom post type and not posts or pages. This is relatively simple to do without a plugin, which is usually best practice when possible.

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Open your theme’s functions.php file and copy the following code snippet at the bottom.

function 1wd_searchfilter($query) { 
    if ($query->is_search && !is_admin() ) {
        $query->set('post_type',array('post','page'));
    } 
return $query;
} 
add_filter('pre_get_posts','1wd_searchfilter');

Note the line where it says

$query->set('post_type',array('post','page'));

Change that line where it says ‘post’, ‘page’ to whatever post type you want the search to be filtered through. So, for example, your code would look like this:

function 1wd_searchfilter($query) { 
    if ($query->is_search && !is_admin() ) {
        $query->set('post_type',array('custom_post_type_name_1','custom_post_type_name_2'));
    } 
return $query;
} 
add_filter('pre_get_posts','1wd_searchfilter');

Be sure to change the name of the custom post type to your own.

We hope that helps you next time you need to limit WordPress search results by post type. Be sure to check out our other WordPress tutorials for more useful tips!

How To Disable RSS Feeds In WordPress

By default, there is no option to disable RSS feeds in WordPress, because RSS feeds allow users to subscribe to your blog posts. However, there are certain situations where you may want to turn off RSS feeds. There are a few plugins that you can use to do this, but whenever possible we always try to use as few plugins as possible and use our own code.

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By placing the following code in your theme’s functions.php file (or a site-specific plugin) when someone tries to go to the RSS feed link (yoursite.com/feed/) they will receive a message that no feed is available.

function 1wd_disable_feed() {
wp_die( __('No feed available,please visit our <a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">homepage</a>!') );
}

add_action('do_feed', '1wd_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rdf', '1wd_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss', '1wd_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss2', '1wd_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_atom', '1wd_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_rss2_comments', '1wd_disable_feed', 1);
add_action('do_feed_atom_comments', '1wd_disable_feed', 1);

Now you know how to disable RSS feeds in WordPress. Be sure to check out our other WordPress tutorials for more tips!

This Week In Web Design – April 17, 2020

Welcome to another edition of This Week In Web Design, our weekly roundup of articles published in the past seven days related to web design and development. This week we have a wide variety of articles, ready for you to peruse and bookmark to your heart’s extent. So saddle up and take advantage of this curated list!

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16 Tools for Keeping Your Remote Design Team Together (and on Task)

Break down some of the best tools out there and how they can improve collaboration amongst your remote team.

10 “Random Act of Kindness” Ideas for Designers

We have a few ideas that you can borrow, add your creative flair to, and use to spread kindness and happiness.

Getting Started With The React Hooks API

Learn and understand what React hooks are, the basic React Hooks that are available and also examples of how to write them for your React applications.

How to Create a CSS-Tricks Custom Scrollbar

Take a look at how to make the custom scrollbar on the CSS-Tricks website.

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

How can we combine elements to develop powerful headers and calls to action? How do we use pre-formatted HTML text, and the text element in SVG for precise control over type? How can we optimise SVGs and make SVG text accessible? In this article, we’ll explore just that.

Styling in the Shadow DOM With CSS Shadow Parts

The ::part() selector is now supported in Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari, and Firefox. We’ll see why it’s useful.

CSS Animation Timelines: Building a Rube Goldberg Machine

Using custom properties to plan out pure CSS timelines for complex animations.

8 Things NOT to do while designing website forms

An effective web form is aesthetically pleasing and yet serves the purpose of creation.

Working From Home? 10 Cheap Ways To Set Up Your Home Office

By utilizing these ideas you can save a significant amount of stress and money and get your home office up and running quickly and affordably.

No-Class CSS Frameworks

Just use semantic HTML and get styles.

Supercharge Your Site: How To Update Your PHP in WordPress

When you keep your PHP up to date, you inherently enhance your website’s performance, security, and SEO.

25+ Best Figma Plugins for Creating Design Systems

Take a look at some of the best and most useful plugins you can use to create your own workflows and design systems.

25+ Best Mobile App UI Design Examples + Templates

To help you find inspiration for your next app design project, we put together this collection of best app designs.

Interactive WebGL Hover Effects

A simple tutorial on how to achieve an interactive mouseover/hover effect on images in some easy steps.

Don’t do these usability mistakes on your website

A site that contains good usability can greatly improve the user’s experience when they visit the website and can, therefore, be positive to the user.

4 Examples of Bad Ecommerce Website Design and What to Do Instead

Look at four websites that show you exactly what not to do, with some hints and tips for what to do instead.

14 Mega Menu Designs All Designers Can Learn From

One of the most important considerations to be kept while including a mega menu design in a website layout is that it should contribute to the UX positively.

How the Vue Composition API Replaces Vue Mixins

The new Composition API, which is available now as a plugin for Vue 2 and an upcoming feature of Vue 3, provides a much better solution for sharing code between your Vue components.

How To Create A Particle Trail Animation In JavaScript

How you can to easily program a small trail of particles with anime.js.

Using CSS to Set Text Inside a Circle

You want to set some text inside the shape of a circle with HTML and CSS? That’s crazy talk, right?

Stop Outsmarting Yourself: Simplify WordPress Development

Some tips for avoiding the virtual minefield of overlooking simpler solutions.

Best Practices With React Hooks

This article covers the rules of React Hooks and how to effectively start using them in your projects.

CSS Scrollbar With Progress Meter

We can use some CSS trickery to make the scrollbar fill up as we go.

Visual Studio Code: A Power User’s Guide

In this guide, you’ll learn how to take advantage of Visual Studio Code to supercharge your development workflow.

12 Free Web Development Courses to Take While in Self-Isolation

With these, you’ll probably come out of the quarantine with some new programming skills that can take you a long way.

Create a Responsive CSS Motion Path? Sure We Can!

How could you make a CSS motion path responsive?

What Are Web Standards (And Do We Really Need Them)?

What web standards are, why we have them, and what you actually need to do with them in web design.

Creating Color Themes With Custom Properties, HSL, and a Little calc()

Nowadays we can define variables in a single stylesheet and let CSS do the magic.

Web Developer Workflow Tools: A Beginner’s Guide

Here’s a primer for the tools all web developers should get to know, from basic Bash commands to web browser add-ons that will debug your web apps and automate navigation tests, plus continuous integrations pipelines.

Working From Home? 10 Cheap Ways To Set Up Your Home Office

Thanks to recent global events, scores of people around the world suddenly find themselves working from home – if they are lucky enough to be able to continue working at all. For newcomers to remote working, this can be a jolt to your lifestyle and pocketbook. Having to figure out how to set up a productive home office environment can be stressful and costly. But it doesn’t have to be.

In this post we are going to suggest some unconventional and creative ways to bring the cost of setting up your home office down by substituting more expensive home office supply necessities with less expensive solutions. By utilizing these ideas you can save a significant amount of stress and money and get your home office up and running quickly and affordably.

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Laptop Stand

Do you dock your laptop in a stand where it’s closed and you use exterior monitors, keyboard and mouse? If so, you could easily find yourself paying at least $30-$60 for such an accessory. Why not use a paper towel holder that you can grab for only $9.99? Not only will it perform the same functionality, but it will look slick sitting on your home office desk.

Laptop Stand - Home Office

Monitor Stand

Fancy monitor stands will cost at least twice as much as using a fiberboard box such as this one. At only $15.81, you can raise your monitor up to eye level and also use it for storage at the same time.

Monitor Stand - Home Office

Pens, Mail, and Other Accessories Organizer

Keeping all of the loose items on your home office desk is not only important, it is necessary for your piece of mind and productivity. Rather than paying $25 or more, pick up a cutlery tray like this one to keep your accessories in, for less than $15!

Pens, Mail and other accessories - home office

 

Desk Pad

You can’t find a quality desk pad for under $20, so why not use kitchen shelf liners instead? You can cut them to your desired size, they are non-slip, they wipe clean easily, and they’re only $5.47.

Desk Pad - Home Office

Cell Phone and Tablet Stands

Here’s a cheap alternative to more expensive cell phone and tablet stands that will prop your smaller screens up for constant visibility on your desk. At $5.99 per pair, these can’t be beat!

Cell Phone and Tablet Stands - Home Office

Foot Rest/Stand

Ergonomic foot rests for underneath your home office desk can get crazy expensive, not to mention many of them are not the most pleasant to look at. While this recommendation is not repurposing something meant for another use, it’s a creative, fun, and unique way to give your feet a lift, and it’s only $10.99!

Foot Rest - Home Office

Desk Lamp

This is another desk necessity that is not repurposed, but for at least half the price of more decorative solutions this clip-on LED desk lamp is a steal at under $15!

Desk Lamp - Home Office

Cable Organizer

Substitute this kitchen utensil rest for more costly cord and cable organizers to clean up your desk area. Run your cables through the slots and enjoy inexpensive organization for only $6.

Cable Organizer - Home Office

Multi-Use Hanging Hooks

Use these clip on hooks as a way to organize cables underneath your desk or to hang other accessories you may have for easily reachable access. This easy organizational solution can be bought for only $6.29.

Multi-Use Hanging Hooks - Home Office

Utensil Holder

This bamboo organizer will add inexpensive yet stylish flair to your home office desk. At only $7.48, this is a great buy that will help keep your desk organized and writing and other utensils easily accessible.

Utensil Holder - Home Office

Do you have other creative home office solutions?

Hopefully our list has provided you with some creative ideas, and sparked you toward coming up with your own solutions that will make your personal working space unique and simultaneously affordable.

This Week In Web Design – April 10, 2020

Another Friday, another edition of “This Week In Web Design”. If this is the first time you’ve checked out our weekly roundup, here’s what you’re in for: all of the articles related to web design and development published over the past seven days that we could find to bring to you in one spot. So sit a spell and browse through our curated list. Hopefully you will find helpful items to your growth in web design and development!

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COVID-19: 5 Human-Centered Design Principles to Guide Leaders in a Crisis

Success is now measured by how we ease the human experience of the crisis, making human-centered approaches to problem solving all the more relevant.

What’s New for Website Design and Website Trends in 2020

Are you looking for some new design trends for your website but aren’t sure what the 2020 trends are?

Design Thinking 101 for Designers

How design thinking can open up a world possibility (and creativity) for designers.

40+ Free Icon Sets You Should Have in Your Bookmarks

Icon sets for a variety of purposes, all available for free.

Remote Usability Testing – Best Practices

Dive deep into remote usability testing.

Continuous Deployments for WordPress Using GitHub Actions

Continuous Integration (CI) workflows are considered a best practice these days. Let’s explore how to set that up.

5 Essential Skills for Web Developers Today

Whether you’re a newbie or a veteran of the industry, the skills you need to succeed are always evolving.

Decoding an unexpected user testing result using neuroscience

In this article we decode an unexpected user testing result with the help of some basic neuroscience principles.

Create Your Free Developer Blog Using Hugo And Firebase

How to deploy a blog for free and with minimal effort using Hugo and Firebase.

Sketch vs. Figma vs. Adobe XD: Which Design Tool Is Best for Beginners?

If you’re in the process of finding your perfect design tool or looking for a replacement, this guide is for you.

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (April 2020)

A number of resources and tools with an extensive set of features.

How To Reduce Your TTFB and Boost WordPress Page Speed

Reducing the TTFB (time to first byte) of your WordPress site is essential to keep it ranking well and ensuring visitors don’t click away.

Dealing with Uncertain Times as a Web Designer

How can you deal with this uncertainty? Here are a few tips to keep you moving forward.

How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS

Cool and relatively simple CSS animation tutorial to mimic Netflix.

10 Tips to Get Minimalist Web Design Right

To create a minimalist web design, there are certain general guidelines you should follow.

You’re (Probably) Doing Digital Accessibility Wrong

No matter where you are in your accessibility journey, here are some common mistakes to avoid.

How Netflix uses psychology to perfect their customer experience

Decoding the science behind the features that keep you binging.

4 Top SEO Plugins For WordPress (+ Bonus Tools)

Top SEO plugins for WordPress plus a few other tools that can take the guesswork out of selecting keywords & tracking results.

The upfront guide to design Inclusive Personas

3 additional steps to consider for a more holistic approach.

Building in Peace: An Introduction To WordPress Local Development

For those who are yet to venture into local development or are looking for a refresher, we bring you this guide.

15 Things NOT to Do While Designing a Landing Page

There are certain landing page mistakes you should avoid.

Radius: A Design System Accelerator

The Radius DS is a collection of open-source tools and libraries that allow you to accelerate your design system.

Frontend Mentor

Improve your front-end coding skills by building real projects. Solve real-world HTML, CSS and JavaScript challenges whilst working to professional designs.

Button Design — UI component series

All you need to know about button design, one of the main interactive building blocks for creating a user interface.

Top 10 CSS Editors [Review]

Here we highlight several of the best options — free and paid — editors that comes with great features.

Baking Structured Data Into The Design Process

As metadata gets smarter, it’s more important than ever to build it into the design process from the start.

How Freelancers Can Stay Positive During Coronavirus

Look at some ways to bring some positive energy into our lives and our businesses during this crisis

How to Create a Well-Organized File Management System for Designers

File organization for designers can be tough since we work on so many different projects, with a variety of clients and teams.

This Week In Web Design – April 3, 2020

March has ended, April has begun, and another week is coming to an end. With all that is going on in the world right now, why not distract yourself by browsing through our latest list of articles published in the past week about web design and development? We’ve rounded up everything we have been reading and could find to share with you, so scroll through and bookmark away. Stay safe and healthy, everyone, and enjoy this latest edition of “This Week In Web Design”!

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3 Essential Design Trends, April 2020

Trending this month are designs for website notifications and pop-ups, retro typography, and blue and green color schemes.

61 Best Web Developer Portfolio Examples

Check the list of examples of our favorite web developer portfolio websites.

How to Create an Emergency Message UI in WordPress

Today, we’ll introduce you a handy solution that uses WordPress custom fields.

Inspirational Websites Roundup #14

This roundup contains our personal selection of the most interesting websites that were released in the past couple of weeks.

How to Work with Clients During a Crisis

For your web design clients, this is a time of great uncertainty. Some, especially small businesses, may be in a fight for survival.

50 Not So Niche Unusual Free Stock Photos

A selection of 50 unusual free stock photos that don’t really fit into a single niche and can be used for a multitude of purposes.

Design Trend: Mono Gradients

There’s a new take on monotone colors that’s trending: mono gradients. Here’s a look at the trend and how designers are making the most of it.

4 CSS Grid Properties (and One Value) for Most of Your Layout Needs

These five properties will get you up and running.

Smart Interface Design Patterns Checklists PDF

A set of checklists to help you create smart interface design patterns.

Visual Design Language: The Building Blocks Of Design

Here’s how the team at Fantasy approached designing a mobile OS for Huawei.

5 Fundamentals of UX Design That Impact SEO

Five practices on how to effectively leverage UX design and usability variables to support your site’s SEO performance.

CSS-Only Marquee Effect

A simple CSS-only marquee effect for a menu based on Francesco Zagami’s Dribbble shot.

30 Wireframe Examples That Will Stir Your Creative Juices

What Should You Do When A Web Design Trend Becomes Too Popular?

This guide will help you figure out which approach makes the most sense for your site.

Coding for SEO 101: Understanding source code, compressed code and compiled code

Look at common roadblocks encountered by beginners trying to learn to code.

Better safe than sorry: precautions to take before changing your website

Sometimes,things go wrong and everything turns into a complete disaster.

How to build a bad design system

One of the biggest mistakes that’s made on a design systems team is a common mismanagement issue.

How Museums Shape Design

How immersing yourself in fine art can improve your design and shape your idea of fundamental art concepts.

30 Web Development Checklists Every Team Should Keep Handy

Everything from front-end and performance to SEO and marketing.

How to Create Effective User Flows in Sketch (3 Simple Steps)

In this tutorial, you can easily apply the flow to any of the three flow types: Task flows, Wire flows, and User flows.

Design in the Time of COVID-19

A list (in alphabetical order) of the industry leaders putting the design community before their profits.

Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React

In this tutorial, you’ll learn what Headless CMS is, and the pros and cons of Headless CMS.

10+ Favorite Figma Plugins

Explore over 10 of our favorite Figma plugin finds so you can approach your next project with greater ease.

7 Tips to Improve Your E-Commerce Website Design

Seven tips to help you create an even better online store, with examples of online stores that rock.

Performant Expandable Animations: Building Keyframes on the Fly

The Devastating Price Developers Pay for Working Hard

No one prepares you for the horrible consequences that come with doing your job well.

Using Interactions to Shape User Behavior Patterns

Breaking down an interaction.

How to Optimize UX Design for your eCommerce Store?

A website that can generate sales effectively needs to have a good user experience (UX) first.

Responsive Images the Simple Way

A piece focused on the most common responsive image use case: resolution switching.

Can Web Designers Save the World?

Web designers collectively have the ability to help shape and save the world by fighting small battles that add up to larger wins for humanity.

Taking a look at our UX Writing Process

UX writing is about crafting content that helps users navigate through a product seamlessly and successfully.

This Week In Web Design – March 27, 2020

Welcome to another edition of “This Week In Web Design”, where we share with you all of the web design and development articles we’ve found that were published this past week. Chances are, if you weren’t already, you are probably working from home or maybe not working much at all. In either case, here is some quality reading for you to peruse in your efforts to continually grow your skills and knowledge in web design. Enjoy, stay safe, and stay healthy!

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Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, March 2020

Grab some inspiration from our monthly roundup of the best portfolios launched in the previous four weeks.

7 Tips for Developing a Website Redesign Strategy

Answer these questions and it will help bring the design together.

What Print and Promotional Materials do Web Designers Need?

If you’re looking for ideas, here are some things to consider.

Quick Tip: How to Build a Simple Stack Hover Effect With CSS

A commonly seen design pattern is to have a card container with other cards underneath it, resulting in a multi-layer stacking effect.

Design Thinking: Levelling the playing field for non-designers

8 Fantastic Examples of CSS & JS Weather Widgets

Take a look at some examples of weather UIs that are the design equivalent of a sunny day.

Different Favicon for Development

For when you have the production website and the development website up simultaneously.

Vue vs. Angular Comparison – What Framework to Choose?

Look at their history, job market, and learning curve, and other characteristics that will help determine the winner.

4 Step Process for Testing New Product Ideas with Landing Pages

Break down the process of creating an excellent landing page, step by step.

10 Best Prototyping Tools for Designers 2020

Free prototyping tools as well as paid apps and even online prototyping tools to suit your budget and needs.

Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable

Animated Custom Cursor Effects

Some ideas for interactive custom cursor animations using SVG filters.

30+ Fun and Playful Fonts For Web Design In Spring 2020

Some unique and interesting options to use in your design projects.

Graphic Design Terminology: A Go to Guide & Glossary

Make Working from Home Successful: Resources for Remote Teams

If you’re a designer or developer, chances are you’ve made the shift to working from home in the past couple of weeks.

How to Handle A Client Invoice Dispute + Avoid it From Happening Again

An invoice dispute from your client can arise for many reasons. Here are the most common ones you might encounter & how to handle them.

Design Trend: 3D Geometry

Three-dimensional shapes and geometry add depth and visual interest to the digital space. Maybe that’s why this is a trending website design technique.

How to Manage Your Freelance Finances During a Crisis

It’s easy to panic in the midst of a crisis. But just like anything else with your business, a well-laid plan can help you smoothly navigate it.

Collaborating with Stakeholders to reduce design complexity

As designers, we need to know how to deal with this issue.

How to Animate Text with SVG and CSS

A quick little tutorial on animating text with CSS by making the text an SVG.

Learn How to Become a Web Designer With These Online Courses

A ist of online courses both free and premium.

Embracing modern image formats

Tiny cross-browser images, in HTML and React

Styling Scrollbars with CSS: The Modern Way to Style Scrollbars

Styling the scrollbar in the browser can be a valuable way to communicate a company’s brand.

5 Essential git Commands and Utilities

Five git commands or helpers that can make your developer life much better!

How to Repeat Text as a Background Image in CSS Using element()

Enable the use of any HTML element as a background image, whether it be a single button element, or an entire div full of content.

Value Bubbles for Range Inputs

All by itself, that range input doesn’t communicate to the user what number they will actually be submitting.

UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #5

The new collection of recent UI works to keep your creative flow going.

4 Productivity Tips For Web Designers

Productivity gets you a higher rate of pay or more web design jobs than other freelancers.

Basecamp’s Jason Fried on the Learning Curve of Remote Work

With tips for newly WFH workers and managers, the co-founder of Basecamp reflects on two decades of collaborating remotely as a team and how to manage expectations during transition.

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30+ Fun and Playful Fonts For Web Design In Spring 2020

Web designers are always on the lookout for new fonts to use in our designs, and there are a plethora of resources and type foundries that provide countless fonts for web use, so the task of browsing through these collections can be very time-consuming. We have a number of web font collections here on 1WD to aid in your search, but here we’ve created a new list focusing on fun and playful fonts for web design as we head into the Spring season.

Regardless of whether you are looking for seasonal fonts, or just something different from the norm, the free and premium fonts for web use listed below will surely provide you with some unique and interesting options to use in your design projects.

Note: be sure to check license information on these popular fonts. They may be free but some of them require reference or may not be used for commercial projects for free, although most of them are.

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Knewave (Free)

Knewave - fonts for web

Miracella Script (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Miracella Script - fonts for web

League Script (Free)

League Script - fonts for web

Fountain Type (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Fountain Type - fonts for web

Pacifico (Free)

Pacifico

Hey Spring Brush Font (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Hey Spring - fonts for web

Calafia (Pay What You Want For Personal Use)

Calafia

Twenty Nine Font (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Twenty Nine - fonts for web

Sofia (Free)

Sofia

 

Sannie Typeface (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Sannie - fonts for web

Boomville (Pay What You Want For Personal Use)

Boomville

Banshee Brush Script (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Banshee - fonts for web

Amatic SC (Free)

Amatic SC

Santoy (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Santoy - fonts for web

Escafina (Pay What You Want For Personal Use)

Escafina

Fairytales Script (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Fairytales - fonts for web

Waltograph (Free For Personal Use)

Waltograph

Hard Stones Family (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Hard Stones - fonts for web

Cheri Font Family (Free For Personal Use)

Cheri

Leah Gaviota (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Leah Gaviota - fonts for web

Bender (Pay What You Want For Personal Use)

Bender

Sanös Extended Script Font (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Sanos - fonts for web

Bigelow Rules (Free)

Bigelow Rules

Cherry Cream Soda Font (Free)

Cherry Cream Soda

Sidebook Script Font (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Sidebook - fonts for web

Chicle Font (Free)

Chicle

Englebert (Free)

Englebert

Fiesta Font Duo (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Fiesta - fonts for web

Henny Penny Font (Free)

Henny Penny

Mystery Quest Font (Free)

Mystery Quest

Nalotta (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Nalotta - fonts for web

Ribeye Marrow Font (Free)

Ribeye Marrow

Enchanted Land (with Envato Elements Subscription)

Enchanted Land - fonts for web

 

This Week In Web Design – March 20, 2020

What a week this has been! With the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the world and most people being quarantined in some way or another, things are rapidly changing and, for many of us, stressful. Thankfully, we have what could be a nice distraction to take your minds off those things, at least for a few minutes, with the latest version of “This Week In Web Design”. Step away from your concerns momentarily and browse through our roundup of all the articles published in the past 7 days that are web design and development related. We hope you find them useful!

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How To Create A Web Design Style Guide

What is a web design style guide? What does it entail? And how can you create one for yourself? Those are the questions we aim to answer.

Exciting New Tools for Designers, March 2020

Hopefully some of these new tools and resources will do the trick.

What Is Storytelling in Design? 10 Tips & Examples

Take a look at some examples of amazing storytelling and how you can apply those concepts to your projects.

10+ Useful Adobe Xd Plugins

A list of the best and most useful Adobe XD plugins to help streamline your work.

Managing Dates and Times Using Moment.js

Moment.js is a Swiss Army knife for working with dates in JavaScript. It allows you to parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times using a clean and concise API.

How to Make Repeating Border Images

How to Create a “Skip to Content” Link

The best way to implement a skip link is to hide it and then bring it into view when it is focused.

Create a Wave Motion Effect on an Image with Three.js

Learn how to make a wave motion effect on an image with Three.js.

How to Build a Simple Full-Screen Slideshow With Vanilla JavaScript

Learn how to create a responsive full-screen slideshow with plain JavaScript.

How UX writing can help create good design

So you think that it’s a fantastic design that makes users love and happily interact with your website. Think again.

20+ Deliciously Dark Website Designs

As more and more websites have shifted to dark mode in 2020, we thought we’d highlight some dark website designs that really capture the concept well.

Implementing Infinite Scroll And Image Lazy Loading In React

Learn how to use the HTML Intersection Observer API to implement infinite scrolling and image lazy loading in a React functional component.

How Do You Make Video Accessible?

You’re responsible for ensuring that every visitor on your website can fully access video.

How Web Designers Can Help in a Crisis

Let’s take a look at some ways web professionals can pitch in.

9 FontAwesome Alternatives That Are Equally As Good

A roundup of some alternative sources of well-crafted font icons.

A Complete Guide to calc() in CSS

Just about everything there is to know about this very useful function.

20 Essential React Tools for 2020

A roundup of essential React tools for 2020.

Breadcrumbs Design 101

A breadcrumb helps reduce the efforts for the visitor to reach a higher-level page.

How to get your new WordPress site indexed

Some tips that could help you get your site indexed faster.

Persuasive strategies to build sustainable user engagement

Don’t just copy persuasive design. It will backfire. Here’s how to successfully build persuasive design into your larger strategy.

How to Find a Job If You Are a UX/UI Designer

What are some of the typical problems UX/UI designers may face and how to deal with them.

How Should Designers Learn To Code? The Terminal And Text Editors (Part 1)

Take a look at getting comfortable with the command line and text editors.

12 Best Web Design Podcasts for 2020

Web design podcasts are entertaining, insightful, and easy to consume, even when you don’t have a great deal of time or focus to give. Here’s a roundup of 12 of the best.

Weekly News for Designers № 532

Here’s a roundup within our roundup!

Top 4 Reasons to Spend Money on Web Design

There are many reasons you should spend funds on providing great content that is also visually appealing for your audience. Here are the top four.

The Advantages & Challenges of Conversational User Interfaces

It has widely gained acceptance over the past few years and more and more websites are willing to have conversational user interfaces on their websites.

You’re (just) a designer

It might be the case that you are not sure what to call yourself, or that you have difficulty explaining to others just what you do.

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This Week In Web Design – March 13, 2020

It’s not only Friday – it’s Friday the 13th! Regardless of superstitions, it’s still time for our weekly roundup of web design and development related articles published in the past seven days. As always, we hope you will find this edition of “This Week In Web Design” useful in your endeavors to grow your web design and development skills.

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Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again

Thanks to some recent changes in browsers, it’s now well worth setting width and height attributes on your images to prevent layout shifts and improve the experience of your site visitors.

Most Common WordPress Attacks in 2020

Take a look at the most common WordPress attacks in 2020, as well as how to guard yourself against them.

The Latest Research for Web Designers, March 2020

This roundup of the latest research for web designers includes a mix of reports along with some news and facts about something that people are talking about all around the world: the coronavirus.

Google Fonts + Variable Fonts

Google Fonts added an option to only show variable fonts!

Website Redesign Process: Your Website Redesign Strategy in 5 Steps

A website redesign process can help bring your site to life and engage potential customers.

10 Best Web Development YouTube Channels to Follow

10 YouTube channels that offer both in-depth tutorials and quick tip videos that make it easy to expand your skill set.

Fluid, flexible & simple typography

This small CSS library serves to avoid the responsive web by focusing on pure fluidity in which the system communicates what size to be rendered.

Basics Behind Color Theory for Web Designers

As a collective digital artist, it is important to understand the fundamental science behind color theory.

Functional Blog Design | Analyzing Blog Layouts, Sidebars, Content Tables

Reading this guide should be on top of your to-do list since it lists all the necessary steps needed to build a functional blog design.

Designing with Real Content

Designing with real content helps ensure we know the product.

Why dark mode web designs are gaining popularity

Dark mode may be the ideal choice for any website that requires lengthy engagement.

Considerations When Choosing Fonts for a Multilingual Website

Working in Arabic and English because it’s a classic example of RTL in use.

25 Free Time-Saving Online Tools for WordPress Developers

Most of these tools are standalone sites that let you input stuff and output something useful, whether that’s a code snippet, a download, a piece of reformatted text, or simply some helpful information.

7 New & Modern Color Trends 2020

What kind of color trends will be popular this year? Will there be new trends in color schemes? Or would any old trends make a come-back? Here are our predictions.

Block Links Are a Pain (and Maybe Just a Bad Idea)

Perhaps the worst thing you can do for a block link is to wrap everything in the <a href>.

Why In-Person Conferences Are Still Relevant for Web Designers

There are still reasons why showing up to a conference is beneficial.

14 Best Adobe Font Pairings For Websites

We hope you enjoy these 14 best Adobe font pairings we’ve suggested, and find them useful in your upcoming projects.

How to Make a Line Chart With CSS

You can make everything you need with just CSS and a couple of custom properties in your HTML.

SASS !default and themeable design systems

Architecting components to offer a white list of themeable CSS properties, so each brand can define their design language using design tokens.

Background Scale Hover Effect with CSS Clip-path

A simple recreation of the background scale hover effect seen on the DDD Hotel website using CSS clip-path.

7 Steps to Creating a Spectacular UX Case Study

Overview, Problem and the goal, Scope, Target audience, Process, Deliverables and the outcome, Lessons learned.

10 Git Techniques You Need to Know Before You Join a Team

All about the basic Git techniques that you must be familiar with before you join a team.

Presenting Design Work with Intentionality

In order to communicate effectively, you need to consider how your ideas are received.

20 Web Developer Portfolio Examples

Chosen based on how interactive, creative, or engaging they are to the site visitors.

PHP Magic Methods Cheatsheet

A cheetsheet quick reference to all the magic methods available in PHP.

50+ Best Wireframing & Prototyping Tools For Web Designers 2020

The tools in this list will allow creating wireframes of minimal or high fidelity, whatever you want.

Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns

If true inclusiveness lies beyond patterns — what other factors should we consider when designing and developing accessible SVGs?

Programming Sass to Create Accessible Color Combinations

Let’s not only use better color combinations in our designs but find a way to make it easier for us to implement high contrasts.

Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?

In games, user experience is everything, so game developers are often under huge pressure to make sure their systems are fault-tolerant.

Using Redux with React: Complete Tutorial with Real-World Examples

Contain your fear of containing state and come along with me on this relatively painless journey.

Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (March 2020)

Some great new tools from big names in the tech industry including Microsoft, Github, and JetBrains.

Ten things I’ve learned as a UX researcher at Uber

ShopTalk podcast redesign

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14 Best Adobe Font Pairings For Websites

Adobe Fonts is one of the few resources for web safe fonts available. Other than Google Fonts, which are free, there are not many other places you can find such a large library of fonts for use on websites. While Adobe Fonts does require paying a monthly fee to use, it is also included with most Creative Cloud plans, for which most designers will already have an account. Because this invaluable resource has thousands of available fonts, it can be difficult to rummage through all of them to come up with the best Adobe font pairings for website projects. So we’ve put together fourteen of our favorites for you in an effort to save you some time.

In the Adobe font pairings below, you will find clean, legible web fonts that are actually being pulled in directly from Adobe fonts onto the page, the same as you would on a website. These are not images. So you can see exactly how they will display on a website. The titles of each of the Adobe font pairings are clickable links to the font pages themselves, for ease of access and bookmarking to use yourself.

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Orpheus (Bold) + Proxima Nova

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URW Din (Bold) + Neue Haas Grotesk (Light)

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Lust + FF Tisa

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Aktiv Grotesk (XBold) + Aktiv Grotesk Ext

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Big Caslon (Black) + Neue Haas Grotesk (Light)

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JAF Lapture (Bold) + Franklin Gothic URW (Light)

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Brothers (Bold) + Interstate (Light)

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Rift (Bold) + Acumin (Light)

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Sofia (Semi Bold) + FF Tisa

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Calluna (Bold) + Effra

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Miller Display (Bold) + Calluna

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Din Condensed + Basic Sans (Light)

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Ambroise (ExtraBold) + JAF Domus

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Fieldwork (Bold) + Source Sans

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This Week In Web Design – March 6, 2020

The first week in March is now behind us, and that means it’s time for another episode of “This Week In Web Design”! Below you will find all of the best articles published this week related to everything we focus on here at 1stWebDesigner, from web design and development, to WordPress, and beyond! We hope you enjoy this week’s list and find some bookmark-worthy reading material.

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UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #4

A fresh dose of inspiration to get you updated on the latest UI animation and interaction trends.

5 Tips for Creating a Web Form That Converts

A high-converting web form is a must if you want to capture user information, build a subscription list, or create a quick checkout experience. It isn’t enough just to have a form that looks inviting. It needs to function well!

The Best CSS Spinners & Loaders

This article showcases over 40 different techniques and styles of pure CSS3 animations for creating any CSS loader your website may need.

20 Amazing Pure CSS Animated Buttons

A list of 20 different CSS animated buttons that you can add to your site via some relatively simple CSS. It doesn’t get much easier!

12 Free Abstract Videos To Use For Backgrounds (Or Anything Else)

When you’re putting together a new website or video production, you’ll often find that having stock clips on hand is extremely helpful. Abstract videos are a great resource to have in your back pocket.

3 Essential design Trends, March 2020

Color, heroes, and a new way to create design depth are what we are looking at this month.

How to Create a Sticky Footer with Flexbox

In this article, we will show you an easy technique that allows you to create a sticky footer with flexbox. It takes just a few lines of code and a couple of minutes to implement it.

3 Tricks From UX Research That Can Help You Have Better Conversations

Do you want to have better conversations? User researchers have superpowers that can help you in day-to-day communication.

10 Sublime Text Packages for Frontend Developers

If you are a frontend developer, we have handpicked some extensions and put them together for you in this article.

Using Cognitive Psychology in UX Design: What to Know

Apart from their technical knowledge, UX developers also need to understand how the human mind works.

Big and Bold Typography: A New Trend in Web Design

An absolute classic of website design. It is a timeless, old-school stylistic option that works like a Swiss watch, regardless of the environment that surrounds it.

Distorted Link Effects with SVG Filters

A couple of ideas for decorative link distortion effects using SVG filters on lines, circles and squares.

Design for Browser Inconsistency With Lambdatest

Lambdatest is a SaaS that enables testing on a huge range of devices from the comfort of your development machine.

Buttono

A flexible Sass mixin for creating BEM-style buttons.

4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover

Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover…but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.

The 5 Forgivable Sins of a Freelance Designer

Explore some of the more common perceived sins that designers commit.

Why Are We Talking About CSS4?

In this article, Rachel Andrew rounds up some of the pros and cons of doing so, and asks for your feedback on the suggestion.

Design Trend: Liquid Animation in Web Design

Delightful design accents can be one of those things that creates an unexpected user experience that keeps visitors on your website.

How You Can Improve UX with Microinteractions. Part I

Microinteractions are the small moments in UX that can be boring and easy to forget, or exciting and engaging.

Introducing Alpine.js: A Tiny JavaScript Framework

Alpine.js is a fraction of the size of other frameworks because it involves no build steps and provides all of the tools you need to build a basic user interface.

Building a User Experience Culture

This week on the Boagworld Show, we speak to two people who are trying to build a more user centric culture and robust digital teams.

11 Types of Gradients for Creating Stunning Backgrounds

Let’s try to understand what a gradient is, and then look at their usage through the course of this article with a few examples.

5 Biggest Non-Design Skills Designers Need in the 2020s

We take a look at the top five skills you need to cultivate to be successful in the 2020s.

UXPin: A Complete Design & Prototyping Solution

Take a closer look at UXPin to see how it can be beneficial to web designers, user experience designers, user interaction designers, and many others.

Consistent Backends and UX: Why Should You Care?

User experience is rapidly becoming the determining factor for whether new products are successful or not.

Designing Care Through Messaging

Integral to transforming the delivery of care are deep explorations, research, and prototyping.

5 Projects to Help You Master Modern CSS

Starting with the easiest, the following project suggestions will help you on your journey to CSS mastery.

10 Best WordPress Themes for Magazine & News Websites in 2020

It’s been a little while since we put together a list of best WordPress themes for magazine and news websites, so we figure it’s time to have another look. We’ve narrowed down this list to include only the top 10 best WordPress themes we could find. Each theme below is highly rated, coming in at 4-5 stars, as well as being newly released within the past few months, so they have the latest functionality, code, and support for the most current version of WordPress. And, while these are premium themes (not free), they are all relatively inexpensive, ranging from $29-$69, so they won’t break the bank when you’re looking to start your new magazine or news website. Of course, you can also sign up for an Envato Elements subscription and pay even less to download any or all of these themes, plus thousands of other downloads to boot!

For each theme in our list, we’ve provided the most important key features we could find, along with a screenshot of one of their provided layouts and a link to where you can learn more about it, view demos, and purchase. We hope this curated collection will assist you in quickly finding the best WordPress theme for your next magazine or news website!

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Pixwell

  • Multipurpose and modern
  • Striking balance between beautiful and visual hierarchy
  • Install any demo with 1-Click
  • SEO options
  • Live search
  • Infinite loading
  • Elementor support
  • 13 demos with unlimited options and layouts
  • $29

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Papr

  • Sleek, modern design
  • 18+ home page variations
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  • Optimized for pagespeed performance
  • Drag & Drop Elementor Page Builder
  • Google AMP ready
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Digiqole

  • Bright and bold design
  • 10+ home page variations
  • 20+ Elementor news blocks
  • 6 Different Category and Post Layout Variations
  • 9+ header styles
  • Elementor Page Builder
  • Dark mode
  • $33

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  • 17 ready-to-install demos
  • 9 article details layouts
  • 50+ Post layout elements to create 8000+ variations
  • 10 header styles
  • 10+ custom widgets
  • SEO and speed optimized
  • Live search
  • Infinite loading
  • 2 mega menu styles
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Buzzy

  • Unique, creative design
  • 1-click demo import
  • 6 homepage examples
  • WPBakery Page Builder
  • Slider Revolution
  • 6 Post Layout shortcodes
  • 3 Post Carousel shortcodes
  • 3 Post Slider shortcodes
  • 3 header types
  • $69

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NeoMag

  • Minimalist modern design
  • 7 dynamic and changeable home page sections
  • 6 header variations
  • 5 category layout options
  • 4 other archive layout options
  • 2 single post layout variations
  • SEO and speed optimized
  • $49

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Blabber

  • Colorful, refined, attractive & trendy
  • 20+ demos ready for 1-click import
  • 30+ exclusive Gutenberg blocks
  • 9+ page layouts
  • 12+ blog layouts
  • 5+ header styles
  • Elementor page builder
  • SEO optimized
  • $59

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Suga

  • Clean, modern design
  • 65+ layout modules
  • 13+ demos
  • 9+ header styles
  • 4+ footer layouts
  • 17 post layout options
  • 13 category layouts
  • Mega menu
  • $39

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Newsbeat

  • Beautiful, well-crafted, and functional
  • 1-click demo importer
  • 6 header styles with 25+ layouts
  • 20+ beautiful layouts
  • 25+ single post layouts
  • WP Bakery page builder
  • Mega menu
  • Infinite scroll
  • SEO and speed optimized
  • $59

Newsbeat - WordPress theme

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Darpan

  • Creative, clean and modern
  • 11 demo layouts ready for 1-click import
  • 5 blog page layouts
  • 200+ add-on elements
  • WPBakery page builder
  • SEO friendly
  • $29

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Which of these 10 best WordPress themes will you choose?

Have you found one or more themes to use? We know you will be pleased with any of the themes in our list. Be sure to share this collection with others so they too can benefit.

This Week In Web Design – February 28, 2020

This final week of February has come to an end, and it was a relatively slow one in regards to web design and development news. Still, we’ve rounded up everything we could find and listed all of this week’s articles here for you. From WordPress to CSS, templates to tools, you will find the latest resources and discussions from the past week here. We hope you find it helpful!

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15+ Adobe XD Tutorials (Beginner to Advanced)

We’ve picked the best Adobe XD tutorials for everyone from beginners to advanced users (and we’ve sorted them, so you can jump in at the right place for your experience level).

WPaudit.site

A helpful checklist to audit your website for formatting, WordPress specific optimization, accessibility, performance, and security.

Setting Up Tailwind CSS In A React Project

This article introduces Tailwind CSS, a CSS library that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without opinionated styles. You’ll also learn how to seamlessly set up Tailwind CSS in a React project.

20+ Best Sketch Website Templates 2020

A collection of Sketch website templates for designing all kinds of websites and landing pages for various projects.

What Is Ethical Design?

What does it mean for a design to be ethical, and how do we make improvements in our own projects?

Sublime Themes to Use for A Better Color Scheme

Within Sublime Text, color schemes assign different colors and font styles to scopes, which are connected to the text in the syntax. Luckily, you have hundreds of Sublime themes to choose from, and this article will present the best of them.

Best usability testing tools

You don’t want to lose out on potential clients or consumers because you failed to optimize your website for the best user experience.

Responsive Grid Magazine Layout in Just 20 Lines of CSS

Create a fully responsive fluid layout that includes responsively resizing multi-column elements as well.

10 Trends in Tech Startup “Unicorn” Websites

Figure out how and why these top startup companies use specific web design trends.

Using WordPress Custom Fields to Enhance a Plugin

Explore some benefits of integrating custom fields into your favorite plugins.

Animating SVG Text on a Path

A demo that shows how to animate SVG text on a path on scroll using the Intersection Observer API and SVG filters.

Can Design Systems Work For Freelancers?

Take a look at what makes design systems so special and some reasons why it makes sense for freelancers to create them.

10 Things to Avoid When Creating Your Website Navigation

To avail all the effective benefits navigation has to offer, we need to understand the top things to avoid while creating our website navigation.

What Does A Foldable Web Actually Mean?

Foldable devices have brought with them talk of a ‘foldable web,’ and the idea that long-standing web conventions may be on the verge of a serious shakeup. Is it all hype, or is it time to get flexible?

How to Overcome Creative Obstacles

We rounded up advice from a handful of determined creatives who have wisdom to share on how to get things in motion when things have been a bit stuck.

Top Wireframe Tools for UI/UX designers 2020

The best wireframe tools that will make it easy for you to design the UI/UX for your app or website.

Top WordPress Skills to Learn in 2020

Here are some WordPress-related skills worth learning (or sharpening) in the new year.

Design Trend: Designing for Dark Mode

Dark mode has been growing in popularity. Most phone and tablet interfaces have the option for users to switch to a dark, rather than the standard light default, color scheme. That’s why more designers are adding a dark mode option to their projects.

Tailwind UI

Fully responsive, beautiful UI components, designed and developed by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger, the creators of Tailwind CSS.

Inconsistent user-experiences with native lazy-loading images

Daniel Aleksandersen highlights the differences of implementation of native lazy loading in browsers.

Drag–and–Drop: How to Design for Ease of Use

Clear signifiers and clear feedback at all stages of the interaction make drag–and–drop discoverable and easy to use.

Heroicons

A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.

Cross-Cultural Design

Effective visual systems can help eliminate that guesswork and uncertainty by creating layered sets of cues in the design and interface. Let’s look at a few core parts of these design systems and tease out how we can make them more culturally responsive and multifaceted.

How to Design for Screen Readers with Adobe XD CC

Adobe XD CC’s design handoff and voice prototyping features come in handy. In this article, we’ll discuss what to consider when designing for screen readers, and we’ll also walk through how to use those features in XD.

5 Simple Responsive Blunders (And How To Avoid Them)

While creating your responsive design, you might end up making some common mistakes. To help you avoid them, we’ve put together some possible responsive design pitfalls and their solutions.

How To Build an Experience Map

Mapping the experience from a customer perspective helps organisations identify strategic opportunities, customer pain-points and generate innovative projects.

Another week of web design in the books!

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Quick Tip: How To Create A Custom Blog Post Template In WordPress

Recently we needed to design and develop a custom blog post template for our Web Design & Development Conferences to Attend in 2020 article here on 1stWebDesigner. Rather than just stick with the same layout we use on all of our blog posts and simply creating a long list of links to the various conferences throughout the year, we wanted to give this particular post a different, more user-friendly layout, with each month of the year as its own section and a multi-column grid that would display up to three columns per row. Click on the link above to see what we came up with.

Because we had not used a custom blog post template like this before, we had to figure out how to make it happen, and, in doing so, realized this would be a great tip to share with our readers so that you too could implement this methodology should the need arise.

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Why Would You Use A Custom Blog Post Template?

In our case, it made perfect sense to use a custom blog post template because we had hundreds of conferences to share and listing them out with just plain text and links would not only be boring visually, it would really be too long to browse through in that format. You may want a particular post to stand out from the rest of your articles, you may have a series of posts that you want to have a consistent layout within the series that is different from your standard posts, or you may have a need to display a certain post’s content differently than others because of what that content consists of, as was our case. Custom blog post templates can be assigned on a per-post basis, used once or multiple times, and you can also have as many different templates as you want.

Thankfully, the capability to create and use custom templates for blog posts is built right into WordPress, and is very similar to creating custom page templates. So let’s dive in and see how simple it can be!

How To Create Your Custom Blog Post Template

There are some differences you may encounter depending on the theme you’re using, but the basics are the same regardless. If you are not already using a child theme, you will need to create one, unless you are using a custom theme of some type, otherwise if you ever upgrade the parent theme you will lose the work you are doing here. Here’s a good article on how to create a child theme.

Once you have your child or custom theme, you will need to create a new file in the root of your theme (child or custom) folder, and name it whatever you want. In our case we named ours conferences.php. There is no required naming convention here – just use whatever will help you know what that file is for.

In your code editor, add the following code to your new file in the very beginning, replacing the template name with your desired name. The second line tells WordPress where this template will be used (on posts, not pages). The last line is just a comment for our own personal use, so you can delete or add your own comment as desired.

<?php
/* Template Name: Upcoming Conferences
* Template Post Type: post
*/
/* The template for annual upcoming conferences post. */
?>

Once you save this file, you will see now see your new post template in the Template dropdown of the Post Attributes meta box on a post edit screen, as shown in the screenshot below.

Custom Blog Post Template In WordPress

The next step is to either copy over the contents of your theme’s single.php file into your new custom blog post template file and start editing and customizing as desired, or you can start from scratch (as we did) if your new layout is going to be radically different from your standard posts.

Voila! That’s It!

We’re not going to get into the coding of the whole template, as that will greatly vary depending on your requirements and the theme you’re using, but this simple little method will get you started on your way to creating your own custom blog post template in WordPress. Now you can go crazy creating all the customization you want! Have fun!

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This Week In Web Design – February 21, 2020

Another week is in the books, and that means it’s time for us to catch up with all the articles we’ve found that were published about web design and development over the past 7 days. Whether it’s front end development, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, web design, or any other related skills, we’ve got you covered with our weekly roundup. Enjoy!

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Top Custom Gutenberg Blocks You Can Add to WordPress

Introduction to some of the top custom block collections available for WordPress.

How Does WordPress Work?

How WordPress works and what that means for your new WordPress website.

A Complete Guide to Data Attributes

Chris Coyier provides this guide to using data attributes including syntax, styling, and accessing data attributes in JavaScript.

How to Get Involved in the Booming Python Job Market

A discussion of actual salaries, in-demand skills, marketplaces, and what to do in order to remain competitive.

10 Amazing Web Design Showcases

A collection of web design showcases, each of which features hundreds of examples of web designs that innovate, educate, and inspire.

While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better

I recently discovered most people aren’t even aware that double position for gradient stops is something that actually exists in the spec, so I decided to write about it.

5 Best Tools to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites from One Dashboard

People have built great tools to help you manage multiple WordPress sites from a single unified dashboard, and I’ve collected the best options in this post.

What’s Coming in WordPress 5.4 (Features and Screenshots)

WordPress 5.4 is scheduled to be released on March 31, 2020. It will be the first major release of the year and will ship with some significant improvements.

5 Things I Wish I’d Known as a Young Web Designer

I’m here to pass along some of the tidbits of knowledge that I wish someone had told me back in the day. May they help you on your journey!

The Latest Research for Web Designers Feb 2020

Reports and surveys that shed light on: The battle between mobile and desktop, Why so many websites keep getting hacked, What’s keeping ecommerce business owners awake at night, and What Google is now saying about mobile-first indexing.

10 Pros and Cons of Minimal Navigation in Web Design

Take a look at some pros and cons with examples of use.

A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons

Let’s take a look at the whole world of links and buttons, and all the considerations at the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, design, and accessibility layers that come with them.

How to Build Vue Components in a WordPress Theme

Build independent, composable, maintainable, interactive, progressively enhanced components in a WordPress theme.

5 Terrible Web Design Clients That Will Make Your Life Hell

A list of terrible web design clients you should stay away from at all costs. Make sure to learn how to spot them and prepare yourself for any potential troubles.

How to Add Custom CSS to Your WordPress Site

A look at four techniques for adding custom CSS to WordPress.

6 Best Browsers for Developers in 2020

We’ve found some of the best browsers for web developers, to get you started.

How To Use The HTML Drag-And-Drop API In React

In this tutorial, we’ll build a React drag-and-drop component for file and image uploads. In the process, we’ll learn about the HTML drag-and-drop API. We will also learn how to use the useReducer hook for managing state in a React functional component.

Design Trend: Mixing Realism and Illustrations

There’s a trend afoot in website design that mixes real images with illustrations and art elements in interesting ways. And it’s quirky, unique, and beautiful!

Understanding Web Accessibility Color Contrast Guidelines and Ratios

You can mathematically know if two colors have enough contrast between them.

Styling The Good Ol’ Button Element

I will explain how to style the most common button styles, and shed light on some pitfalls we face while building them.

Create Diagonal Layouts Like It’s 2020

Diagonal layouts are great. You can build them easily with CSS.

Add Background Colors to SVGs Using the “rect” Element

Things, like the syntax of SVG, can be a little tricky and having to hand-alter SVG code sometimes isn’t out of the question.

How to Properly Organize Files in Your Codebase & Avoid Mayhem

A review of the most common systems for both small and large projects, with some easy-to-follow best practices.

Animate SVG Path Changes in CSS

Every once in a while I’m motivated to attempt to draw some shapes with <path>, the all-powerful drawing syntax of SVG.

10 Fantastic Variable Fonts to Use

A list of top super flexible and useful variable fonts that one can use in their next branding campaign.

10 Websites to Test Your Codes Online

These tools will surely come in handy when you’re scrambling to debug a block of JavaScript or PHP.

3 Strategies to Follow When Your Site is Failing

Web analytics and split testing, in-person testing, and simplifying your sales process.

A Guide to Console Commands

This guide covers what’s available in the console object of Firefox and Chrome as they are often the most popular browsers for development and they do have a few differences in various aspects of the console.

Website Statistics for 2020: 10 Critical Stats to Know for Web Design

Check out 10 critical stats for web design in 2020.

Navigation for Design Systems and Style Guides

Looking at some different common solutions and when it makes sense to use one over the other.

We Hope You’ve Enjoyed “This Week In Web Design”

Check back every Friday for the latest articles to continue growing your skills as a web designer/developer. We’ll see you next week!

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First up in our collection of free vector illustrations is a woman sitting in an airport talking on her cellphone. This could be used in a multitude of ways. For instance, you could easily change the airport setting by removing the airplane and suitcase.

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Next up is a side-smiling character with a cat wandering down the stairs. Again, you could do any number of things to modify this illustration, such as moving the person the top of the stairs so that it looks like the cat is running away from them.

Windowsill Woman With A Tablet In Winter

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This Week In Web Design – February 14, 2020

It’s Friday, and around here that means it’s time for another edition of “This Week In Web Design”! It also happens to be Valentine’s Day, and we think you’ll LOVE our list of resources for all things related to web design that were published over the past week. (Sorry, just couldn’t resist.) Dive on in and bookmark away!

10 Modern Web Design Trends for 2020

What modern web design trends are on the horizon for 2020 — and how can you use them to freshen up your site?

10 Fantastic Podcasts for UX Designers for 2020

A collection of fantastic podcasts aimed squarely at UX designers that you should definitely add to your “to-listen-to” list.

Avoiding the Feast or Famine Cycle for Freelancing Success

The feast or famine cycle is the burden bearing down on many freelancer’s backs. However, that doesn’t mean freelancing isn’t a wonderful way to make your money.

Launch with a Bang: 17 Tips for Successfully Launching a New Business Website

In this article, we’ll discuss successful website launching, from creating the design to creating the buzz.

Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020

This roundup is packed with new tools to help you through projects or learn new tricks to enhance your skillset.

UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #3

The latest collection of interesting and modern UI interaction and animation concepts.

Looking Outside of Web Design for Inspiration

Let’s explore some sources outside of web design that we can mine for inspiration.

Conversational UI Mobile Examples

When done well, conversational UI and chatbots can provide a more intuitive and helpful experience but also take the overall experience of the app to a whole new level.

How to Connect PHP to MySQL

Do you want to learn how to connect php to MySQL and perform different types of database operations? You’ll find it here.

Avoid These 10 UX Design Fails

These ten UX design fails prove that even top companies can sometimes drop the ball.

How to Fetch and Parse RSS Feeds in JavaScript

The goal is to request that RSS feed, parse it, and do something useful with the data in it. RSS is XML, and XML is arguably not as easy to work with as JSON.

How to Book, Plan + Attend a Design Conference Like a Pro

A design conference is a great way to recharge, refresh, and develop new skills to make you better at your job. But planning for attending a conference can be a little bit intimidating.

Codeigniter Tutorial: Learn to Master Codeigniter

New to CodeIgniter? Here is an awesome place to start and get the most out of this powerful framework.

5 Web Design Trends For 2020 That Are Here To Stay With Us

Short term results can be OK, but good long term results are what you want if you are to grow in your profession. In terms of web design, that means subscribing to, and adhering to, design trends that have staying power.

Web Design Mistakes You Want to Avoid in 2020

What are the common mistakes that can actually bring your site down and how to avoid them?

The Hooks of React Router

You will find this article useful if you are looking for a quick primer on the new patterns of React Router.

Working With WordPress User Roles and Capabilities

Get a solid understanding of how the whole WordPress user management and role system works conceptually.

Understanding CSS Grid: Grid Template Areas

Take a look at how to use grid-template-areas to place items.

Thoughts on Building a WordPress Website from Scratch (Without Code)

Using a WordPress page builder plugin and a companion “blank” starter theme.

LearnDash Review: Excellent Learning Management System (LMS) Plugin For WordPress

Take a look at what LearnDash is and what it can do.

Setting Up API Mocking With Mirage JS And Vue.js

This article introduces Mirage JS, an API mocking library that lets you build, test and share a complete working JavaScript application without having to rely on any backend API or services. You’ll also learn how to set up Mirage JS with the progressive front-end framework, Vue.js.

How To Setup Your Local React Playground

How to setup a React playground with almost zero configuration in 3 easy steps (using parcel bundler).

Same HTML, Different CSS

Go through an HTML content that should look at different styles without changing the HTML code.

14 Absolute Best Invoice Software Solutions for Freelancers in 2020

This list includes invoice software that can also help with project management and time tracking as well as some that only focuses on the basics of billing and nothing more.

Web Accessibility Standards: A Primer for UX Designers

Accessible design is an inclusive solution in providing a structural pathway for better navigation and a great user experience for people with or without physical, emotional, and mental limitations.

How to install the MySQL database server and begin adding data

Although you’ll be learning how to add data via the command line, you shouldn’t have much problem with it.

How I recreated a Polaroid camera with CSS gradients only

Earlier I remade the design of an old calculator entirely in CSS. I had a lot of fun making it, so I decided to do the same with a Polaroid camera this time.

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Another Week In The Books

1stWebDesigner hopes this week’s roundup of web design and development articles will help you continue to grow in your knowledge and skills. If you are a publisher, blogger, or own a website that is publishing articles about or related to web design and you would like to make sure you get included in our lists, please contact us here.

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